POLICE ARREST THREE PERSONS INVOLVED IN EXCHANGE OF FIRE ON PARAKER-MERDZAVAN ROAD
Noyan Tapan
Dec 04 2007
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. Karen Harutyunian, Georgy Galstian
and Artur Baroyan – persons involved in the exchange of fire on
Parakar-Merdzavan Road on November 19, have been arrested, NT was
informed by the RA Police PR and Information Department.
The above mentioned persons are residents of the village of
Parakar. There was an exchange of fire as these persons tried to
sort out their relations at the Rubina Hotel Complex on the road
from Parakar to Merdzavan, as a result of which they were taken to
hospitals in Yerevan and Etchmiadzin.
Vardan Gasparian and Levon Gyulumian, residents of the same village,
and Marine Minasian, a 23-year-old resident of the village of
Meghradzor (Kotayk marz), were also taken to hospital. M. Minasian,
who had no relation to the quarrel, also received bullet wounds.
According to police, the investigation has already substantiated that
on November 19, at about 8:00 p.m. Georgy Galstian, 23, and Karen
Harutyunian, 25, quarreled with Artur Baroyan, 29, his father Samvel
Baroyan, 51, and his brothers – Varazdat, 19, and Edgar, 18. During the
quarrel, Georgy Galstain fired from his Makarov pistol at 28-year-old
Levon Gulumian, wounding him in the abdomen, while Karen Harutyunian
fired from his illegally obtained Mauser at Artur Baroyan and Vardan
Gasparian, 36. Artur Baroyan in his turn fired from his illegally
otained AKSU at G. Galstian and K. Harutyunian.